I AM PARENT! I have made BABBY! You are NOT parent, you may not comment. You WILL enjoy my babby's feces and urine. You MUST! Complaining about babby feces on your restaurant table makes you a BAD person! How DARE you question the sanctity of my babby's feces and urine? You should be arrested for disliking feces and urine, you hateful horrible person! I am Parent- I have SPOKEN!

But "elimination communication," as the diaper-free method of child-rearing is called, is finding an audience in the hipper precincts of New York City.Ms. Shapiro, who is a doula, a birth and child-rearing coach, says it is practically now a job qualification to at least be able to offer diaper-free training as an option to clients. Caribou Baby, an "eco-friendly maternity, baby and lifestyle store" on the border of artsy Greenpoint and Williamsburg,

Ms. Shapiro scattered little bowls around the house to catch her daughter's offerings, and her sister insisted that she use a big, dark marker to mark the bowls so that they could never find their way back to the kitchen.

Also, is there a vaccination available yet for the overwhelming desire to somehow be different and unique in a ridiculous fashion for no good reason whatsoever? How about this, you want to be different so bad, here comes the magical make-you-special genie *POOF* you've farking got scoliosis and 6 fingers on one hand, are you happy now?

Also, is there a vaccination available yet for the overwhelming desire to somehow be different and unique in a ridiculous fashion for no good reason whatsoever? How about this, you want to be different so bad, here comes the magical make-you-special genie *POOF* you've farking got scoliosis and 6 fingers on one hand, are you happy now?

Which is exactly the forward-thinking ecological paradise we should be emulating.

Fark It:But "elimination communication," as the diaper-free method of child-rearing is called, is finding an audience in the hipper precincts of New York City.Ms. Shapiro, who is a doula, a birth and child-rearing coach, says it is practically now a job qualification to at least be able to offer diaper-free training as an option to clients. Caribou Baby, an "eco-friendly maternity, baby and lifestyle store" on the border of artsy Greenpoint and Williamsburg,

And that's the point where I stopped reading.

Let me just say that there are times I am very, very glad I live in the Midwest.

DRTFA, but when it was time for my kids to be potty trained, this is the way the wife did it. Worked like a charm, but she only did it around the house. Only one or two accidents and the kid is trained.

So when they're in their crib do they just piss and sh*t all over themselves?

If you propped your boy baby on the toilet like the kid in the article--he'd pee all over the wall and toilet tank. If he did that in public--are you a responsible enough parent to clean up the mess? I bet not. I think people like this are likely to be "me-firsters".

Want to raise your crotchfruit like a monkey? Then go live in the rain forest.

Yep. Kids just wear pants with a little slit cut in the crotch, and shiat or piss whenever and wherever they need. Adults spit everywhere, chew with their mouths open, slurp their soup, stand on toilet seats and cut in lines.

"They are more popular among older, affluent parents in larger cities, and can charge up to $1,000 for three visits (before, during and after birth).[7] "

"There is a lack of standardization and oversight of doulas, with multiple organizations providing different courses with varying requirements. There is no formal or universally recognized certification process or training requirements, and anyone can refer to themselves as a doula.[5] No academic credentials such as a college or university diploma, or high school equivalency are required.[7] In contrast, in the United States a certified nurse-midwife can deliver a baby outside of a hospital and without doctor's assistance but is a conventionally trained nurse who has undergone an extra one to two years of training.[7]Doulas do not require or receive any medical training.[7] In North America training generally takes the form of a two to three day seminar, and some experience with childbirth."

Words can't quite describe the look on my face when I was reading that. If you want to reduce waste, why not use cloth nappies like people used for centuries? They can be washed and reused, instead of buying a small country's GDP worth of disposable diapers. I don't see how letting your child urinate and defecate all over the place is preferable to buying so many boxes of Huggies, you're considered a stockholder.

If you want to let your overdeveloped sperm shot run around and piss and schitt all over your house, then go ahead and do so. But, if you are going to go out in public then put a damned diaper on the brat. Oh, and I really do hope that cops start issuing tickets to the parents if they catch them having their brats go to the bathroom out in public.

Parents are drawn to the method as a way of preserving the environment from the ravages of disposable diapers...

Fair point, but what's the environmental impact of dealing with the sanitary issues from having kids defecate all over the place? To be more specific, if this parenting method results in people getting sick more often, the environmental costs of combatting the sickness could be greater than the diapers?

It just reminds me of people buying those reusable shopping bags where more oil goes into their creation than several hundred plastic bags.

Do cloth diapers really save that much waste? I'd imagine that the water and other resources you'd need to wash them as often as you do would negate other environmental impacts, and unless you're composting or making fertalizer with the feces it still has to be disposed of somehow (or is it just flushed?).